Plans for a £100m mixed-use redevelopment at Battery Park in Selly Oak, Birmingham, are to go before planners tomorrow.
Sainsbury’s and Land Securities, via their Harvest joint venture, are planning a 171,000 sq ft Sainsbury’s supermarket, 163,000 sq ft of shops and 161,500 sq ft of student accommodation on the site. Some 21,000 sq ft of leisure will also be built on the 20 acres that the jv owns of the 30-acre park.
Neil Carron, project director at LandSec, said: “It’s a heavily contaminated and complex site. We’re hoping to have it decontaminated by 2016 with practical completion in 2017. The tenant mix in theory will be broad fashion and a non-food mix. It’s too early to be talking about prelets just yet.”
Birmingham council paid about £10m for 10 acres of the site last April to bring forward a major life sciences campus for the city.
The council, in partnership with the University of Birmingham and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, plans to build a new 418,000 sq ft facility on the land.
Before the land deal with Birmingham council, LandSec had hoped to develop a 430,000 sq ft retail scheme on the whole of the park, with Sainsbury’s as the anchor.
lisa.pilkington@estatesgazette.com
